010: Shane Snow – How To Accelerate Success Using Smart Cuts

The Learning Leader Show With Ryan Hawk

Ryan Hawk

Careers, Management, Business

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2015

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Episode 010: Shane Snow – How To Accelerate Success Using Smart Cuts

When I created this podcast, I made a list of the 125 people I would reach out to first to be a guest on the show… Shane Snow was the very first name on that list. (Adam Grant was next). Shane’s book Smartcuts is one of the best books I’ve ever read. In this episode, we took a deep dive and Shane gives us the entire blueprint to accelerate success. Shane is not about just achieving success, he’s about accelerating it. When you listen to this episode, you’ll see why.

“The next Malcolm Gladwell.” That's what fans and critics from Forbes to The L.A. Times are calling innovation expert and keynote speaker Shane Snow, the bestselling author of SMARTCUTS: How Hackers, Innovators, and Icons Accelerate Success. An award-winning entrepreneur and journalist, Snow has been declared a “Wunderkind" by The New York Times, a “Digital Maverick” by Details Magazine, and his work “Insanely addicting” by GQ.

We go over everything from Jimmy Fallon’s quest to get on SNL to understanding how lateral thinking will change your life.

Welcome to Episode 010 with the next Malcolm Gladwell, Shane Snow

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"If you truly love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made of." - Bruce Lee

Some Questions I Ask:

What does accelerating success mean to you?
What is lateral thinking? How can it change your life?
What type of mentorship is best?
How do we implement these ideas into our careers? Specific ways… What actions can we take?
Why do we celebrate failure?
What is the difference between a Smartcut and a short cut?
What is your definition of a Learning Leader?

In This Episode, You Will Learn:

How to accelerate your own success
Interesting Riddles
How Jimmy Fallon, a nobody from upstate New York became who he is today (love this part)
Why informal mentors are the best
Specific exercises to implement into your life TODAY to accelerate success
Shane’s thoughts on others calling him the next Malcolm Gladwell
The time when Shane actually met Malcolm in person for the first time
Shane’s definition of a Learning Leader

“If you’re landing on an aircraft carrier, it’s not okay to fail…” – Shane Snow

Continue Learning

Go to Contently's Website
Read Smartcuts by Shane Snow
Follow Shane on Twitter @shanesnow

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Episode 002: How To Take Over And Set Bigger Goals With Chris Brogan

Episode 004: How Todd Wagner (and Mark Cuban) Sold Broadcast.com To Yahoo! For $5.7 Billion

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I love discussing how we can all accelerate success. It’s a fascinating topic and Shane is a genius! I loved this episode. I’m proud to say that Shane has become a friend! Who do you know that needs to hear this? Send them to The Learning Leader Show!

Episode edited by the great J Scott Donnell

Shane Snow Bio From Amazon.com

Entrepreneur and journalist Shane Snow (Wired, Fast Company, The New Yorker, and cofounder of Contently) analyzes the lives of people and companies that do incredible things in implausibly short time.

How do some startups go from zero to billions in mere months? How did Alexander the Great, YouTube tycoon Michelle Phan, and Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallon climb to the top in less time than it takes most of us to get a promotion? What do high-growth businesses, world-class heart surgeons, and underdog marketers do in common to beat the norm?

One way or another, they do it like computer hackers. They employ what psychologists call "lateral thinking" to rethink convention and break "rules" that aren't rules.

In Smartcuts, Snow shatters common wisdom about success, revealing how conventions like "paying dues" prevent progress, why kids shouldn't learn times tables, and how, paradoxically, it's easier to build a huge business than a small one.

From SpaceX to The Cuban Revolution, from Ferrari to Skrillex, Smartcuts is a narrative adventure that busts old myths about success and shows how innovators and icons do the incredible by working smarter--and how perhaps the rest of us can, too.

Transcript

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0:00.0	I think you know the best leaders are in my opinion people who are very
0:05.2	opinionated but also very adaptable they can persuade you and convince you and
0:09.5	inspire you that where they're going is the right place to go until they realize that it's
0:15.1	not and then they can about face so they can make a sharp turn and then continue
0:20.0	to inspire you and persuade you to keep following them. I think that's, and what does that take?
0:25.8	It takes an open mind, it takes a willingness to learn. I think I don't want a mentor who is not moving, who's not continuing to progress themselves.
0:35.2	I would love to sort of be in the draft or the jet stream behind people who are moving quickly rather than people who have you
0:44.7	know you have come to a stop you know because an object arrest is not going to to keep moving.
0:50.8	Our leaders born or are they made our host Ryan Hawk believes that leaders can be made through determined focused work on learning the art and science behind the makeup of other successful leaders.
1:02.0	Now it's time to inhale knowledge and exhale success.
1:05.7	You're listening to the Learning Leader Show
1:07.8	with Ryan Hawk. Hey and welcome to the Learning Leader Show I am Ryan Hawk.
1:26.0	Tonight's episode is extremely exciting for me.
1:30.0	When I created this podcast I wrote down a list of a hundred people that I wanted to talk to to be
1:37.3	guests on the show and the first one on that list was Shane Snow, the author of the book Smartcuts.
1:45.0	Forbes and LA Times are calling him the next Malcolm Gladwell.
1:48.6	He is an absolute genius.
1:51.3	And I've read his book many times. I read all of the articles that he writes, and I wanted to, you know, have so many questions to ask him that I'm so excited to talk with him the night.
2:00.0	A couple things I want to get into. You know, he talks talks he has a story in the book about Jimmy
2:04.1	found how he came from nowhere upstate New York and made it on Saturday night
2:08.4	live and how he did that that's was specifics around it. You know how can you and I and everyday people implement
2:15.4	smart cuts in our life to help us accelerate success? I want to learn about that and
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